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A Lesson from My Farmyard
 Our family lives on 150 acres in
rural West
Virginia. We raise an
enormous garden, free-range chickens, rabbits, and cats galore. We currently
only have five cats, which are kept for their friendship as much as for their
mousing abilities. God has given me many learning experiences here on this
beautiful country acreage. Here is one farmyard lesson that will tug at your heart
as it did mine.
May 3, 2008 - 10:57:27 PM
Biblical Womanhood and Christian Living
A stewardship issue
In our
churches, in our communities, there are invisible needs. There is an
invisible war in America that has taken husbands and fathers out of the
home and women and children have become widows and orphans. A single
mom, struggling to survive, wonders if anyone cares if her family lives
or dies. She's working two jobs just to pay her rent. She is exhausted
by the end of the workday. Yet she comes home to fix dinner, bathe
children, and clean house before she collapses into bed. Her needs are
hard to spot, because she doesn't want anyone to know how needy she is. [This is a clarion call for Christians to care for the widows and orphans--single parents included--in our midst. When we heed this call, we see the Church flourish. When we ignore it, we confirm that faith without works is dead.]
How to Get Back Home
Raising a Family on One Income
I’m going to tell you just a bit about how to live on one income,
but before doing that I will tell you how I’m qualified. Number one: I
live on one income and have done so all our married life. Number two:
we have
successfully
lived on one income. We are not in debt. We truly owe no man, or bank, or corporation, anything! So how do we do it? A peek inside my home will answer some of your questions.
How to Get Back Home
Embracing the Virtues of the Single-Income Family
There is no question about it, moving
from two incomes to one will have a dramatic impact on
our lives. To succeed we must do more than simply
cut corners, we must embrace the six virtues of
successful stay-at-home parents.
Biblical Womanhood and Christian Living
Book Review: What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton
Written by one of the funniest, most intelligent men ever born, this book contains insightful and humorous ideas of what a woman's role
is.
May 3, 2008 - 10:05:59 PM
Biblical Womanhood and Christian Living
Woman to Woman: Messy House Ministry
The other day I heard a knock on the door and froze. I glanced around
my living room. It looked like a toy store after a hurricane. How could
I let someone see the house like this? After all, the house reflects
the person inside—at least, that’s what the home decorating magazines
say.
Homemaking and Other Practical Topics
Why Set a Pretty Table?
"The
table is the point for family reunion twice or three times a day, and
nothing should be lacking that we can do to make those meetings
pleasant and cheerful. No decoration will suffice to cover untidy
napery, dim glass, or only partly cleaned silver. All details must be
looked to, and then a perfect whole may be expected." This advice,
taken from man English penny weekly dated 1896, has lost none of its
validity.
Homemaking and Other Practical Topics
If My Grandma Could Do It
So many women today feel handicapped by their lack of training. They
turn their hearts toward home, only to discover that their hands are so
inexperienced that all they produce is failure. Or perhaps, they don’t
even know where to start. They’ve never made a homemaking schedule
before, cleaned an oven, or cooked from scratch. They hear of women
like my Grandma finally became, and they think, “These people are
aliens. I can’t even
make
a cake let alone decorate one.” But
if a woman who started out her homemaking career not knowing how to
make a bed can do it, then so can we. [From a LAF reader: "This is an encouraging post for ladies struggling to learn homemaking."]
Feminism and Related Issues
No-Fault Divorce--The End of Marriage?
By now, any observer with a modicum of moral insight is aware that
marriage is an institution in crisis. Nevertheless, one of the most
significant factors contributing to this crisis is often overlooked,
and that one factor has led to the breakup of more marriages than any
other--no-fault divorce.
Feminism and Related Issues
Tax Cut of the Century
The 1948 act was not the largest tax cut of the century. But unlike the
tax cuts of the Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush eras, the measure nursed
near-record levels of industrial growth and economic expansion without
sacrificing family size, moving nearly half of all married mothers into
the full-time labor market, or reducing the relative earnings of
married men. Nor did the good times coincide with the unraveling of the
family, another plus that puts the economic performance of the past
generation in perspective. [We don't endorse the socialistic policies of the New Deal or agree with neo-conservatism, but it is important to learn from our more family-friendly past. We need to understand how families can thrive on one income when government cuts itself back and lets families keep more of what they earn--and how families can take back the areas of service the government has tried to usurp (welfare, elder care, etc.).]
Hot Button Issues
Obama's Abortion Extremism
Abortion is an unavoidable moral issue. It also has broader political
significance. Democrats of a past generation -- the generation of Hubert Humphrey and Martin Luther King Jr. -- spoke about building a beloved community that cared especially for the elderly, the weak, the disadvantaged and the young. The advance of pro-choice policies imported a different ideology into
the Democratic Party -- the absolute triumph of individualism. The
rights and choices of adults have become paramount, even at the expense
of other, voiceless members of the community. [We haven't posted much of anything on the presidential race this time around, but this compelling article highlights more than a candidate's personal stand on abortion and asks excellent questions.]
Feminism and Related Issues
In perfect health, the baby doctors said would be born deaf and blind ...and live only a few hours
"He was written off completely and we believed he was 100 per cent certain to be handicapped." Becky, 23, whose father Paul Weatherall is Mayor of Pembroke Dock,
said: "I feel incredibly guilty thinking that I could have killed him –
and then I find myself wondering how many other babies are killed who
would have turned out to be completely healthy."
Feminism and Related Issues
Royal college warns abortions can lead to mental illness
Women may be at risk of mental health breakdowns if they have abortions, a
medical royal college has warned. The Royal College of Psychiatrists says
women should not be allowed to have an abortion until they are counselled on
the possible risk to their mental health. [This has already been well documented in the US, where online and offline support groups exist to help women deal with the often crippling grief of post-abortion trauma. Abortion providers do not tell this side of the story when they "counsel" those desiring an abortion.
Not for young readers.
]
Feminism and Related Issues
Aliza Shvarts, Abortion and Art
Our culture's commitment to abortion,the hatred so many young women
feel toward their own bodies from coming of age in a hypersexualized
society and our educational elite's loss of all moral direction come
together today in a single story
. [This story has sparked outrage across the political spectrum. The story has changed from day to day, with the "artist" at first saying it was a hoax, then disavowing that explanation. The bottom line remains: We are a culture in love with death, and this is what it leads to.
NOT for young readers.]
Hot Button Issues
What Abortionists Won't Tell You
With a trembling hand, I raised the stick of the pregnancy test and
read the results. Positive. A new life was growing in the young womb--a
life that only I seemed to want. Seeing my eyes grow moist, she knew
the result without being told. She hung her head in silence. Putting my
arm around her, I asked simply, "What are you going to do?" I knew the
answer already, but I prayed for a change of heart. She was going to
abort the 10-week-old growing baby.
Apr 24, 2008 - 11:42:13 AM
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